Posted: Fri 08 Feb 2013, 19:45 Post subject:
XP PRO password forgotten! How to fix?Subject description: The only account in it (Administrator) has a pwd but it has been forgotten...

...after many month without been even turned on due to a damaged screen.

I happened to make that old pc start again after finding a screen & reinserting the RAMS. That's not my pc but it's needed in a car shop because it contains very useful program inside (don't know what program).

I've read about ophcrack & it should run under linux. Where I can download it to try to see if I finish this issue?

PS. I've read about other alternatives that 'erases' the pwd in a windows installation, which makes me think about the possibility of running Puppy, for ex., getting access to that SAM file & erase the pwd location's contents. I know, this's the riskiest method but, can it be done like so?

It has occured to me that since that machine is trying to boot WinXP PRO I might be able to intervene with its menu.lst file & dual (or triple) boot it, been Ophcrack one of them. I don't know what caveats the PRO version would have for doing this but any ideas are welcome.

As far as I understand it Ophcrack should be considered an OS in itself & that's why cannot be run as an ordinary api: is this correct?

I've used this many times and it works, although, a newer comp with a SATA drive might need drivers which should be available from the same site.

Have you tried to log in as administrator with a blank password? You'd be surprised how many times it works._________________X-slacko-3b7 with Xfce-4.12.0 - X-slacko-2.3.2 - X-precise-2.4
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Thanks DPUP5520, rg66 & cthisbear for replying!
To DPUP5520: Your solution seems to be very complete but, just for removing a Win XP pwd, I was thinking that even a little program in a 3.5" diskette might do --could be wrong on this!

To rg66: The only acct. available there is the Administrator (with an unknown pwd) &, yes, I tried it many times already. I think I'm inclined to try the 'pogostick' method first.

To cthisbear: I think that many years ago I read about it & it looked then very good, now it looks even better. The problem is that it's a too powerful tool for the job. I strive to keep things as simple as possible. That's why I inquired above about manually editing the Registry ...

I used the PPM (PL 5.2 & didn't find chntpw in there. I'm almost sure that someone here has made a version fit for Puppy 5 series already. It's located somewhere onknown to me though, unless Puppy can use a version located in an Ubuntu repository (which I'm not very sure, yet).

Since the Win machine is away from my place & there's no internet connection I need to locate the app, download it to a pendrive and, once I get there do you think I can use either a PL 431 Live CD that boots there as well as a bootable DSL pendrive that also boots there to run that app?

To be precise I'm running PL 5.28.005 now. It's the newest version I've.

All this is happening within a VAIO notebook, so I don't have access to a diskette as the machine to be healed has for other options available.

BTW, from where I can get the 'chntpw'?

Could 'ophcrack' be run within a pendrive if I'm using PL431 live cd? I mean, if I can d/l it in a pendrive here, take it to that machine, run PL431 there & then use ophcrack from the usb there to solve the issue?

Thanks for any info/ideas!

Edit: It has occured to me the possibility of running, say, PL431 from the live cd there, shrinking the partition that Windows occupies now & to 'put' in that new partition, say, ubcd, BartPE or something else useful for dealing with this issue; then, edit the menu.lst file in windows as well as the boot file there to make it a dual (triple?) boot system...

If it can be done (there're many variants to do this) then there's the issue of 'what to extract from the iso file & where/how to put it in order to enable it to boot' --workable.

Do anyone here has an opinion in favor of this approach or else?_________________Sony VAIO VGN AR250G Notebook + 512MB RAM.
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I used the PPM (PL 5.2 & didn't find chntpw in there. I'm almost sure that someone here has made a version fit for Puppy 5 series already. It's located somewhere onknown to me though, unless Puppy can use a version located in an Ubuntu repository (which I'm not very sure, yet).

Since the Win machine is away from my place & there's no internet connection I need to locate the app, download it to a pendrive and, once I get there do you think I can use either a PL 431 Live CD that boots there as well as a bootable DSL pendrive that also boots there to run that app?

Note: DSL uses Knopix.

Thanks for any thoughts/ideas!

If I remember correctly, I found it in Lupu 5.2.5, and Slacko 5.3.3. I couldn't find it in 5.28 despite IcyOS's tutorial showing it.

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